The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) has acquired the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. prestigious 2022 Alpha Peace Award for making certain peace and safety in Liberia and the African area.
Reading the Alpha quotation of honor to the AFL not too long ago through the International Day of Peace celebration in Monrovia, former Deputy Foreign Minister, B. Elias Shoniyin, who’s Chairman of the World Policy Council of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, gave a background of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) and its contribution to peace in Liberia.
Shoniyin stated, regardless of challenges, the AFL “stands tall today as a towering national asset that has won the admiration, love, and respect of Liberians as well as foreigners”.
The quotation acknowledged additional, “The folks of Liberia owe a debt of gratitude to the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) for his or her show of excessive requirements, full integrity, nice mind, and the efficient method wherein they perform their duties in service to the nation and its folks.
“Therefore, we the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Eta Epsilon Lambda Chapter, bestow upon the Armed Forces of Liberia its inaugural 2022 Alpha Peace Award, in honor of our legendary Bro, The Late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
In a dispatched from the Ministry of National Defense, the Chief of Staff of the AFL, Major General Prince C. Johnson, III, together with Deputy Defense Minister for Administration, Tibli Olandrus Dickson, Sr., accepted the award on behalf of the Armed forces of Liberia (AFL) with pleasure; and stated the armed forces is dedicated to defending and holding peace in Liberia.
Major General Johnson warned in opposition to the militarization of youths by politicians and known as for the naming and shaming of these concerned with acts that clearly undermine the peace of the state.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation have, for 3 years and ten years, joined nations and establishments around the globe, together with the United Nations system, to commemorate the International Day of Peace on September 21.
The International Day of Peace was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 and unanimously adopted 20 years later, in 2001, to designate the day as a interval of non-violence and cease-fire. Since then, this present day has offered a globally shared date for all humanity to decide to peace above all variations and to contribute to constructing a Culture of Peace.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation (KAICT), University of Liberia, have each known as for the safety of peace and democracy in Liberia throughout occasions commemorating 2022 International Day of Peace.
Peace and safety, they consider, are important parts of human safety, and {that a} peaceable and safe atmosphere is important to financial and social improvement and the conclusion of human aspirations.
The name got here as the 2 establishments collectively commemorated the “2022 International Day of Peace” beneath the theme, “Politicizing Ethnicity Threatens Peace and Stability”.
The colourful occasions started with a grand parade from the Antoinette Tubman Stadium to the University of Liberia (UL) Capitol Hill major campus. The parade was joined by a cross-section of scholars from excessive faculties and universities throughout Monrovia and its environs.
During the official program within the auditorium of the University of Liberia (UL) President, Reverend Dr. Julius Sarwolo Nelson, welcomed the visitors, together with high-level dignitaries from the diplomatic corps, academia, and the personal sector, and requested all Liberians to domesticate peaceable conducts that may undertaking a greater picture of the nation.
Delivering the keynote handle, ECOWAS Ambassador to Liberia, Her Excellency Josephine Nkrumah, admonished Liberians to have interaction, mobilize and promote the general development and improvement of the society by peaceable actions.
The ECOWAS Ambassador, who spoke on the theme, “Is Ethnicity A Threat to Peace and Stability in Liberia?” had a conviction that the advance of the Liberian society is a matter of onerous however mandatory selections by the folks of Liberia.
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